The latest release in Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic's La Música de España series marks the centenary of the birth of Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge, the best of whose music combines Catalan and Caribbean folk idioms with taut neoclassical structures and a glamorous, post-impressionistic sense of orchestration. The finest work here is Calidoscopi Simfònic, dating from 2001 – the year before Montsalvatge's death – which dazzlingly reworks music from a ballet left unfinished in 1955. The weak link is the Simfonia de Rèquiem (1985) for soprano and orchestra, which is curiously discursive and unfocused. Cinco Canciones Negras, from 1948, includes the famous Lullaby for a Little Black Boy, though the cycle as a whole glances edgily at American intervention in Cuba in the early 20th century. The performances are immensely persuasive. Ruby Hughes sounds suitably seraphic in Simfonia de Rèquiem, but the vocal honours go to Clara Mouriz, tremendous in Cinco Canciones.